Written by true experts. Informative yet so much fun to read!" Nassim Nicholas Taleb- author of The Black Swan "Easy-to-digest and highly competent. If everyone were to read this book, the world would become a more enlightened ...

This paper deals with the path planning problem of a team of mobile robots, in order to cover an area of interest, with prior-defined obstacles. For the single robot case, also known as single robot coverage path planning ...

This paper investigates the day of the week effect in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) General Index over a ten year period divided into two subperiods: 1995-2000 and 2001-2004. Five major indices are also considered: ...

In the Debt Dilemma of Developing Nations, Chris Carvounis provides an insightful overview of the external debt problems currentrly plaguing a number of developing countries. The book is neiher comprehensive in tits handling ...

The issues that concern Decentralization, Local Government, and in general State Administration are themselves of great importance. Their importance, however, is more significant during certain periods, because of special ...

This special section aims to demonstrate the limited predictability and high level of uncertainty in practically all important
areas of our lives, and the implications of this. It summarizes the huge body of solid empirical ...

It is clear that urban planning is not a theoretical science, but an applied field. However, this does
not imply – or justify – the lack of an analytical field that would lay the scientific foundations of urban
planning ...

This study presents the modeling of the system of educational facilities included in a large city or a municipality, to facilitate a decision regarding the optimum location of a new educational facility. As will be shown, ...

The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to develop a measure (People Perspective Questionnaire; PPQ) that assesses a dimension previously proposed, stating that a characteristic or trait exists, whereby some people ...